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This is a list of captains and coaches of
This is a list of captains and coaches of Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...
premiership teams. Jock McHale
James Francis "Jock" McHale, (12 December 1882 – 4 October 1953) was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949.
Earl ...
has coached the most premierships, with eight in total. Syd Coventry
Sydney Andrew Coventry (13 June 1899 – 10 November 1976) was an Australian rules footballer.
Family
He married Gladys Eileen Trevaskis (1901–1977) on 8 October 1921.
West Coast of Tasmania
Originally from Diamond Creek, Victoria, Diamond ...
, Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownl ...
and Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck (born 24 June 1953) is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL).
His 426 career games was a VFL/ ...
are the most successful captains, with four premierships each.
The coach of the premiership winning team currently receives the Jock McHale Medal, named in McHale's honour. The medal was first awarded in 2001, and Jock McHale Medals were retrospectively awarded to all premiership winning coaches from 1950 onwards, which was the first season following McHale's retirement from coaching.
List
All team captains prior to 1902, and occasionally until 1922, also acted as the team's coach.Footnotes
*1: Jock McHale had coached the Collingwood throughout that year and into the week of the grand final, but was absent on the day of the grand final, having fallen ill with influenza. Club treasurer Bob Rush performed the match day coaching duties in his place. For many years, Rush was credited with having coached the game, but after a decision in 2014 by the AFL's historians, McHale was credited as Collingwood's sole coach in the game for the purposes of coaching statistics.Further reading
*See also
*List of AFL Women's premiership captains and coaches
This is a list of captains and coaches of AFL Women's premiership teams. No coach has yet led their team to more than one premiership, while Chelsea Randall and Erin Phillips
Erin Victoria Phillips (born 19 May 1985) is an Australian rule ...
*List of NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL premiership captains and coaches
This is a list of captains and coaches of National Rugby League premiership winning teams, as well as its predecessors NSWRL, ARL and Super League. Ken Kearney has captained the most premierships with six, all at St. George, while Arthur Hal ...
References
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